Word: ems
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...maintain that they wish each other only the best, the W.N.B.A. did pointedly leave out the A.B.L. in the history of women's basketball it recently printed in a newsletter. And a W.N.B.A. executive told Time, "There is a lot of pressure to beat the A.B.L. 'We gotta beat 'em, we gotta beat 'em' is the mentality that comes down from headquarters." Reporters who regularly cover the W.N.B.A. suspect the attendance figures are slightly inflated. But there's no doubting the marketing acumen of the league, which uses regular N.B.A. staff members--not when Liberty (or Sting or Mercury) merchandise...
...EM--signifies that Ed McMahon is about to appear...
...killed on urban streets every day. Yet this crime, cloaked sensationally in black-on-white, is quickly escalating into a small-town version of the O.J. Simpson case. During a preliminary hearing last week, as Nicole testified against a row of handcuffed suspects, one of her supporters yelled, "Hang 'em!" Meanwhile, the defendants' families are murmuring about conspiracies against their boys. Flint Mayor Woodrow Stanley is struggling to manage a crisis that threatens to further damage the city's image. "This incident is holding the entire city up to national ridicule," laments Stanley, who is black. "All of the positive...
...largest U.S. local phone company, or a Baby Bell. For now, the company is on a recruiting binge, trawling through corporate America for the talent that seems to be lacking within its walls. But as Walters can attest, hiring hot shots doesn't work if you keep throwing 'em back...
...witty manifesto, Herz correlates each major genre of electronic game with an age-old impulse: shoot-'em-ups like Doom tap the primal instinct for survival, while puzzle games like Tetris satisfy the need for order, control and reason. The games' larger-than-life superheroes are interpreted as contemporary reincarnations of mythological figures like Zeus and Prometheus...